OrASMic,
Other that transiting the AT guys, I don't think having ATCOs would have helped out there at all. Having another cog in the gears would slowed things down and there is obviously no benefit in that when dealing with a TIC. Remember that FCs hold all the flight safety tickets needed to keep a/c safely seperated. You would however, have been worth your wait in gold over at the Aussie CRC.
Had Helmand been airmiss central then, I think they would have drafted you in. As it stands, I don't think there were too many (although I did witness one corker that required me to drop my pen on the floor and spend 20 seconds looking for it...)